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Guinness5.0
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testing nukes in the bikini islands?
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Spartacus
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I'm looking for the specific name for this explosion
Guinness5.0
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I guess it helps to read the title eh?4everhung said:
beefcake28
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Christmas island testing of the H-bomb?
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getting close
bonus 1000K if you can name the warship closest to the center
bonus 1000K if you can name the warship closest to the center
Firebaall
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4everhung said:
This is the first pic, isn't it?
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Photos/LANL/image76.shtml
Is this wrong?
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dammit I'm done with youFirebaall said:
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It must be Baker. I've found both those pics listed as "Baker" during Operation Crossroads.
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Photos/LANL/image76.shtml
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Photos/LANL/image77.shtml
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Photos/LANL/image76.shtml
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Photos/LANL/image77.shtml
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you're going to have to do some work to get the correct ship
I got out a magnifying glass
and then cross-checked with another website
I'm about 90% sure I have the ship ID'd
I got out a magnifying glass
and then cross-checked with another website
I'm about 90% sure I have the ship ID'd
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you were rightFirebaall said:
I have about 8 windows open to different sites and I move along and read shit
trying to come up with a new teaser too
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nopesublime35 said:
saratoga was a flat-top
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you got the karmaFirebaall said:
now give me the ship maxwell
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close but I don't think soAngel said:
I have another ship in mind
and I'll explain why too
rsnoble-im-back
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well if the wife was here she could tell you--she's a history major and im looking at that picture on my wall right now. All I know is that it's cool and I bet there was more than 1 dirty pair of underwear in the laundry that day.
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USS Minow
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that's the shipAngel said:
look at this site in which they map the ships
you can see arkansas positioned closest to the center of the baker
http://www.bikiniatoll.com/
scroll down to "dive/tourism" info
then select
"the ships of bikini atoll's nuclear fleet"
it has a diagram
also too look at this USS Arkansas site
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-a/bb33.htm
notice the prominent superstructure of the arkansas
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after researching some more I'm now thinking it's the nagatosublime35 said:
arkansas was closest to the blast's zero point
besides the LSM-60 that held the bomb
so arkansas might be "inside" the cloud
while Nagato was further out and actually sank 3 days later
"A scalloped hull vessel built for speed with armor belting 3.9” thick up-wards to 11.8” with 14 inches of armor on the turrets. She cruised at 26.7 knots and had a crew of 1333 men and fought in the battle of Marianas, Leyte Gulf, and Samar.
An infamous ship, the Nagato, in that the plans for the attack on Pearl Harbor was crafted within her bridge. The signal relayed “Tora, Tora, Tora,” was sent to this ship’s radio room to inform Admiral Yamamoto that the attack on Pearl had been successful. That initiating a turning point, in which the reluctant Americans were forced into an active role in the war.
Captured at war’s end in Tokyo Bay on August 30, 1945, the Nagao was brought to Bikini to symbolize the complete and unconditional surrender of the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was designed to as an insult to a people who has seen two nuclear blasts on their own soil and their now famous Flagship was to fall to yet another. The Nagato was already heavily damaged prior to being brought over for the tests. Small teams of sailors kept the ship afloat long enough for the crossing and the tests.
Pictures show damage from an arial bomb that tore through the bridge structure close to the main deck. The pictures indicate twisted crossbars between windows and canted decks leading up to the top gun directors. This is significant only that the bridge structure broke off when Nagato hit the sea floor. This resulted in a nearly clean cut of the bridge section from the main deck. The bridge lays neatly perpendicular to the line of the hull.
The armament of the Nagato consisted of eight 16inch/45 caliber guns, twenty 5.5”/50 caliber guns, four 3.1 inch anti-aircraft guns, three machine guns, and eight torpedo tubes. Four above and four below. Sixty-eight 25 mm guns. The gun directors were a hundred feet off the main deck. This ship could shoot over the horizon, therefore the higher the gun director form the deck the better the aim for those “over the horizon shots”.
The Nagato sank a few days after the Baker blast. It is rumored to have been helped a little during the night. We did not find any torpedo holes that would indicate that happened, however it wouldn’t be all that hard to open a few seacock valves now would it? It’s one of those little mysteries.
There is some penetration into the stern area, very limited and nothing to see there. This ship was stripped of effects and stores prior to sailing to Bikini. In other words, whatever wasn’t nailed down was hauled away. From a break in the main deck there is good access into the galley and you can still see the giant rice cookers bolted to the floor (ceiling now), Light fixtures are still intact. There is some more exploring to be done in the forward compartments, but time is short due to depth.
Diving along under this ship give a sense of awe. You just can’t grasp the size of it. The 16 inch Guns are immense. The draping anchor chains are huge. Once you swim under the main forward deck there is enough ambient light all around the ship that gives it a surreal crude beauty."
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I'll donate 1000K to you toosublime35 said:
